Conservation group speaks out against TransAlta Centralia gas plant, claims it’s an ‘expensive retreat from clean energy progress’

Conservation group speaks out against TransAlta Centralia gas plant, claims it’s an ‘expensive retreat from clean energy progress’

Environmental and public interest advocates expressed alarm on Wednesday following the Washington state Department of Ecology’s announcement supporting a new natural gas power plant on the site of the shuttered TransAlta coal plant in Centralia. In a news release, the Washington Conservation Action wrote that despite significant public health impacts and a pending air quality and environmental review, the project is being actively promoted by Ec…